LogHog

why have straight people allowed the name change ? Call them what they are. Sure they have a right to be whatever they wish. But why do straight people have to listen to them all the time. Unless your really ashamed of being homosexual.I'm straight and proud of that.Thank God.

idliketoknow

In a perfect world, sexuallity in scouting should be a non issue whether you are gay or straight. No adult leader ever discussed his or her sexual preference with me when I was a scout. I would expect similar conduct across the board regardless of prefernce. Once a scout master starts discussing it, then you can take votes on giving them the boot. Since it's not a perfect world, this should be handled on a council by council basis. No one is going to go where they are not wanted. Problem solved.

DisplacedWVian

Notice how all of these so-called tolerant people (liberals, gay-rights groups, et. al.) are INTOLERANT when it comes to the right of a PRIVATE organization to conduct itself the way it believes is in its own best interest.

GETACLUE

DisplacedWVian..... Are you for allowing smoking in restaurants and or bars, mom and pop stores or even walmart???? These are all private businesses shouldn't the owners get to decide what legal activity they want in their business. Or better yet what color people they sell their products to.

anutterview

Can't the "alternatie" lifestyle groups form a national scouting association with whatever charter they choose to follow?

Are they somehow less capable of sustaining such an organization?

If an "alternative" scouting organizzation is in such demand, it shouldn't be hard to find the resources to form and operate it; and members would be drawn from those that previously felt excluded as well as from current scout troups that disagred with the current scout charters.

anutterview

After the "alternate" scout (hereinafter, the Alt-Scouts) organizastion recruits away the members from the BSA, the Alt-Scouts always have the option of offering to allow the BSA to merge with them, using whatever identification the combined group desires.

daWraith

intresting

what substance whgflg. It seems to me that gays want to dictate the lifestyle for the rest of us. As whgflg says, that don't tate right to me and left a bad tate in my mouth--lol. They'll all burn in hell, or have a burning feeling somewhere.

ZirusX

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